TLC star Jana Duggar of “Counting On” and “19 Children and Counting” is married!
The eldest daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, 34, married Stephen Wissmann, 31, in Prairie Grove, Arkansas, on Thursday, in line with Individuals’s unique report on the 500-guest marriage ceremony.
USA TODAY has reached out to the Duggar household for remark.
The ceremony passed off two months after they had been engaged. Jana’s bridal social gathering included sisters Jessa Duggar Seewald, who was her maid of honor; Pleasure-Anna Forsyth; Johannah Duggar; Jinger Duggar Vuolo and Jordyn Duggar in addition to sister-in-law Abbie Duggar. Dad Jim Bob Duggar walked her down the aisle.
Jana Duggar referred to as the marriage “a dream come true” in a interview with Individuals earlier than the nuptials.
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“Coming from two greater households, we love to have the ability to get collectively and have fun moments like these,” she stated. “And so to have all of them there, it simply means loads.”
The ceremony passed off about half an hour from the place she grew up together with her siblings in Tontitown.
Who’s Stephen Wissmann?
In response to Individuals, Wissman is considered one of 13 siblings and lives in Nebraska together with his massive household. He installs irrigation techniques for work and in addition does sandblasting and portray.
Duggar will depart Arkansas to hitch Wissman in Nebraska, the place “he has just a little home we purchased that we have been fixing up,” she stated.
How Jana Duggar, Stephen Wissmann met
Wissmann and Duggar met by way of their households greater than a decade in the past.
“I keep in mind them coming to our house, in all probability 13 or so years in the past and so they ended up getting snowed-in right here, which rarely occurs in Arkansas,” Duggar advised Individuals.
“I keep in mind simply taking part in video games late into the evening, doing puzzles collectively till the snow melted off, and so they had been capable of journey again house. I do not actually keep in mind Stephen that effectively as a result of I am older than him and so he was under no circumstances on my radar.”
They reconnected years in the past and tried relationship, however finally referred to as issues off. They stored in contact, and her brother Jeremiah Duggar married Wissman’s sister Hannah in 2022. They rekindled their romance earlier this yr and realized “We nonetheless take pleasure in one another. We nonetheless actually respect one another,” Duggar stated.
Jana Duggar’s household’s controversies
“Counting On” aired 11 seasons between 2015 and 2020. TLC canceled the present in 2021 following Josh Duggar’s indictment on baby pornography costs. The oldest baby of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar was convicted and sentenced to 12 years in jail.
The collection was a derivative of “19 Children and Counting,” which aired 2008-2015, with TLC pulling the plug on the present after Josh Duggar was discovered to have sexually molested 5 younger women, together with his sisters, when he was a teen.
‘Derogatory and sensationalized’:Duggar mother and father criticize ‘Shiny Glad Individuals’ doc
Final yr, the four-part restricted docuseries “Shiny Glad Individuals: Duggar Household Secrets and techniques” was launched and featured accusations, together with from fourth Duggar baby Jill Duggar Dillard, towards the once-beloved actuality TV stars identified for his or her sprawling household and conservative values. The collection claimed the Duggar mother and father had joined a cult led by an accused sexual predator as a younger couple.
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar pushed again towards the portrayal of their household within the Amazon Prime collection, saying it “paints a lot and so many in a derogatory and sensationalized method as a result of sadly that’s the route of leisure nowadays.”
Contributing: Pleasure Ashford